The physics of electric-discharge CO2-lasers
Abstract
The current status of studies of the physics of electric-discharge CO2-lasers is reviewed. Particular consideration is given to the physics of glow discharges in molecular-gas flow; the physics of resonators with active-medium flow; the propagation of intense CO2-laser radiation in the atmosphere, vapors, and liquids; and the physics of the interaction of intense infrared radiation with matter. A number of stationary and repetitively pulsed electric-discharge CO2-lasers are described.
- Publication:
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Moscow Energoizdat
- Pub Date:
- 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982MEner....R....V
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Gas Discharge Tubes;
- High Power Lasers;
- Infrared Lasers;
- Laser Target Interactions;
- Quantum Electronics;
- Atmospheric Optics;
- Gasdynamic Lasers;
- Glow Discharges;
- Laser Applications;
- Laser Outputs;
- Molecular Flow;
- Optical Pumping;
- Optical Resonators;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Quantum Amplifiers;
- Lasers and Masers